INCREASING SERVICES QUALITY THROUGH ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT

The qualitative dimension of the service companies’ activities also refers totheir impact over the environment. This aspect is meant to contribute to a sustainableeconomic growth, based on high economic performances, but also on obeying theenvironment protection and preservation requirements. Offering services in harmonywith the sustainable development principles requires the companies to be concerned withmonitoring and controlling the impact of their activities over the environment byadopting an adequate system of eco-management. Through a comparative approach, the article underlines the characteristics of twoof the most used environmental management systems, promoted by the European Union’slegislation, ISO 14001 and EMAS, which must be adopted by the service companies inRomania in order to be compatible with the environmental acquis’ regulations.environmental performance, services quality ,sustainable development

Realităţi si perspective ale economiei bazate pe cunoaştere din România în contextul integrării în Uniunea Europeană

Developing the knowledge-based economy constitutes one of the strategic priorities of the European Union which aims the increase of the performance and economic competitiveness, and Romania like membership country has assumed this important objective. In the paper are carry out the general features of the knowledge-based economy, the competitiveness of Romania within the European Union from this perspective and there are formulated some directions of action in order to achieve the mentioned objective.knowledge-based economy, economic competitiveness, European integration, policy innovation, knowledge management

THE RISK ANALYSIS FOR INVESTMENTS PROJECTS DECISION

The risk signifies the possibility of existence of one situation in which the obtainedresults are far from the targeted objectives. Assuming the risk by the entrepreneurs becomes thesource of profit within the economy; this is the reason why its analysis is a prior objective insubstantiating decisions related on the investments efficiency. In the paper there are presentedsome categories of risks that can appear within the investment activity and is exemplified the riskanalysis on the base of studying the projects sensitivity.investments, risk, economic performance, sensitivity analysis

Adapting the Romanian rural economy to the European agricultural policy from the perspective of sustainable development

One of the major objectives of the Common Agricultural Policy is the sustainable development of the agricultural sector and of the rural area. Romania, as a country recent integrated in the European Union, has to pass an adapting process to the CAP, in order to achieve sustainable farming development. The analysis presented in the paper refers to the actual development stage of the sustainable agriculture in Romania and demonstrates the important efforts made on this line, also the very necessary actions for implementing the sustainable development strategy of the rural economy. Realizing this objective is a real chance for Romanian agriculture in order to increase the competitiveness on the EU market, valorizing in this manner its agricultural potential.rural economy, sustainable development, European agricultural policy, efficiency, farming strategy

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIC DIRECTIONS FOR AGRICULTURAL HOLDINGS

The agriculture's sustainable development is a demand of the Community's Agricultural Policy in Romania. The objective can't be reached without competitive agricultural holdings, which work on the basis of high economic performance criteria. This is why agricultural holdings must take into account a series of strategic development directions, such as: the technical capital's optimum dimensioning and management, perfecting the human capital, perfecting the rural structures, the exploitation's optimum dimensioning, improving sales.sustainable development, agricultural holdings, development strategy, technical capital, human capital, rural structures

ASSESSING PERFORMANCE OF THE SUSTAINABLE SPATIAL DEVELOPMENT: ROMANIAN CASE STUDY

The sustainable development requires to be implementing on the efficiencyprinciples of the sustainable development, which has to be appreciated depending on abenchmark system. This study performs an analysis of the sustainable performance ofRomanian regions and reveals disparities compared to the national economy. The researchmethod used is Sustainable Value which synthesis the contribution of the economic, socialand environmental resources to value creation. The obtained results highlight that somesignificant differences between the Romanian regions exist. They suggest the necessity ofsome appropriate sector policies in order to eliminate disparities, achieving the economic-social cohesion and environment protection.region development, sustainable value, performance, sustainable spatial development,disparities

REGIONAL DISPARITIES OF AGRICULTURAL PERFORMANCE IN ROMANIA

The accession to the European Union has opened new challenges for Romanianagriculture, which must implement the principles of the Common Agricultural Policy. These principlesaim at achieving high performance agriculture, capable to ensure food security for the population andto adequately develop the rural area. The paper intends to analyse the performance of Romanianagriculture in relation to the agriculture in the European Union and to highlight the recorded regionaldisparities in order to fully exploit the potential of agriculture. Data Envelopment Analysis is the usedmethod, which provides information for the relative assessment of performance in relation to thedecision-making units, considered a gauge. The results of the analysis show the poor performance ofagriculture in Romania, and the efficiency recorded at the level of the development regions varies.agriculture, Data Envelopment Analysis, sustainable performance, efficiency frontier, developingregions

ANALYSIS MODEL FOR INVENTORY MANAGEMENT

The inventory represents an essential component for the assets of the enterprise and the economic analysis gives them special importance because their accurate management determines the achievement of the activity object and the financial results. The efficient management of inventory requires ensuring an optimum level for them, which will guarantee the normal functioning of the activity with minimum inventory expenses and funds which are immobilised. The paper presents an analysis model for inventory management based on their rotation speed and the correlation with the sales volume illustrated in an adequate study. The highlighting of the influence factors on the efficient inventory management ensures the useful information needed to justify managerial decisions, which will lead to a balancedfinancial position and to increased company performance

Analysis of companies’ economic performance using the profitability rates

Studying the economic profitability provides information concerning the efficiency of the patrimony management and the corresponding remuneration of the invested capital. Therefore, the analysis of the economic profitability rates is an instrument of appreciating the economic performance of companies, also of their competitiveness, and it is useful in substantiating the decisions of investors, managers, creditors and of the other user categories. This paper presents and illustrates within a suitable case study, the significance of the economic profitability rate in accordance with its expression under the material aspect or of the patrimony financing sources, also depending on the activity cycle whose efficiency is analysed. Additional information related to the companies’ increasing capacities of economic performance can be obtained by studying the factors that influence the level and evolution of the economic profitability rate using some economic-financial analysis models.peer-reviewe